Release Notes

New Features

• Convert spoken commands for "slash" and "new line" into their respective characters for improved transcription accuracy.
• Introduce an explicit spoken language setting, allowing users to specify their preferred language for transcription.
• Implement quick-prompt hotkeys on Windows for faster access to common commands.
• Enable no-speech detection hints for macOS users, helping to avoid incorrect transcriptions when the microphone is active.
• Preserve URLs during voice translations to maintain formatting and context.

Improvements

• Mute system output while dictating on macOS and Windows, providing a clearer dictation experience.
• Enhance the dictionary functionality on Windows with fuzzy and phonetic matching to improve word recognition.
• Improve the transcription process by blocking no-speech Whisper hallucinations, ensuring more accurate results.
• Show detected source language in reader mode, enhancing user awareness of the current language context.
• Provide session-aware autostart on system reboot, ensuring the app is ready for use immediately after startup.

Bug Fixes

• Resolve issues with excessive blank lines during text insertion, leading to cleaner transcriptions.
• Fix the "Check for Updates" notification to appear in all app states, ensuring users are informed about available updates.
• Address problems with the tray menu on macOS, ensuring it displays correctly on secondary monitors.
• Correct the exact-match functionality for short words in the dictionary to reduce false positives.
• Prevent crashes during silent-engine recovery and improve overall stability during use.

New Features

• Added paragraph and newline detection for improved HTML clipboard capture on Windows.
• Introduced smarter translation formatting that enhances the accuracy of translations by using coverage-based methods instead of word-by-word approaches.
• Enabled token preservation and HTML structure preservation during autocorrect, ensuring that your text remains formatted correctly.
• Implemented a unified rich text paste feature that maintains translation-safe formatting across different platforms.

Improvements

• Enhanced clipboard functionality to preserve all formats during save and restore on both macOS and Windows, providing a seamless user experience.
• Improved the reliability and correctness of the hotkey flow, making keyboard shortcuts more dependable.
• Enhanced audio feedback and volume visualization during speed tests, allowing for a better understanding of audio input levels.
• Updated the login screen with a new color gradient watermark for a more visually appealing interface.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved issues with the onboarding watermark logo being clipped, ensuring a complete display during the onboarding process.
• Fixed a race condition that could cause issues with the new recording state, improving overall app stability.
• Addressed problems with the visibility of the pill during the language selector flow, ensuring that translated text remains visible.
• Corrected the display of the login screen when authentication tokens are missing at startup, enhancing user experience during login.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Windows hotkey keyboard issues when using 2 keys as the hotkey or when changing hotkeys, including modifier blocking and M key magic mode.
• Stability improvements for Windows
• Resolved Auth issues
• Fixed onboarding UI by removing the banner, translating buttons, and addressing overflow issues.
• Fixed rich text formatting issues in edit mode, magic mode, and autocorrect verification.
• Fixed spelling detection phonetic matching
• Fixed the left panel width in onboarding to fit the language grid on Windows.

• New Features

  • Added relay client with mDNS discovery in speech settings.
  • Introduced a Windows reader window with focus panel management.
  • Added a close button to the pill window for easy dismissal.
  • Implemented a cross-platform parakeet-rs ONNX transcription backend.
  • Added recording sound toggle setting.
  • Implemented a feature to transcribe files
  • Introduced a new hotkey and text insertion commands for the Windows audio plugin.

• Bug Fixes

  • Resolved transcription errors and UI discrepancies across audio models.
  • Corrected the invisible pill window over fullscreen apps on second monitors.
  • Fixed the microphone re-initialization after system sleep/wake on macOS.
  • Addressed the issue of the tray icon hover closing the main window on macOS.
  • Resolved the issue of the pill panel overlay visibility over fullscreen apps on macOS.
  • Fixed the Windows pill window positioning below the taskbar.

• Other Changes

  • Redesigned the pill window with language and prompt popups.
  • Enhanced the onboarding process with improved UI and responsiveness.
  • Updated the dashboard stats to simplify the display to four compact cards.

New Features

• Introduced a new customizable shortcut feature, allowing users to set their preferred key combinations for various actions.
• Added support for drag-and-drop functionality, enabling users to easily organize their shortcuts.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue where the app would crash when opening certain settings menus.
• Fixed a bug that caused shortcuts to not save properly after editing.

Other Changes

• Improved performance of the app during startup, resulting in faster load times.
• Updated dependencies to enhance overall stability and security.

Release Notes for v0.5.75

New Features

• Improved invite email design with updated logo, environment URLs, and tag sanitization.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed various issues related to email invitations.

Other Changes

• Updated deployment process from development to main production.